Grosvenor Prints

[Bear hunt] Ense Urbum invadit rabidum cataphractus: et Ursus / Ungibus arripens hominem conatutur hamatis / Sternere... 26 & XIIII
Joan. Stradanus invent. Corn. Galle Sculp. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Men in armour stab bears with daggers, as cubs watch from a cave. Plate 26 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54130] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Buffalo hunt] Bubalus agrestis, Rabidus, trux et ferus est Bos... 27 & XXXIII
Joan. Stradanus invent. Joan. Collaert Sculp. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Riders with lances and dogs hunting wild cattle. Plate 27 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54131] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Camel hunt] Horrida Barbariæ regio nutrire Camelos Dicitur eximios... 28
Joan. Stradanus invent. Joan. Collaert Sculp. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Soldiers shoot camels with muskets, butchring them on a beach and taking the meat back to galleys waiting offshore. Plate 28 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54132] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer hunt] Sardi equites Ceruos & Ceruas... 31 & XII
Joan. Stradanus invent. Car. de Mallery Sculp. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Riders lasso wild deer. Plate 31 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54134] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer hunt] Sic boue fictilio contecti sulphuris ictu Accensi occidunt pavidos formidine Ceruos.
Johan. Stra. inve. 1577.
[Antwerp: Philips Galle, c.1596].
Engravin, 16th century watermark. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Hunters use a dummy ox as a hide to shoot deer. Plate 32 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54135] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer hunt] Sic canibus celeres agitant in retia ceruous Inq[ue] fere timidum iactant venabula pectus. 33
Johan. Stra. inve. 1577.
[Antwerp: Philips Galle, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Dogs drive deer into nets and snares. Plate 33 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54136] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer hunt] Veloces canibus Ceruos per aperta fatigant Pascua, quos feriunt ferrati cuspide teli. 34
Jo.es. Stradanus. inven. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving, 16th century watermark; 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
A deer chase by riders with spears and dogs. Plate 34 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54137] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Deer hunt] A Canibus Ceruus quandoque agitatus odoris... 35 & XXXVIII
Joan. Stradanus invent. 1577. Joan. Collaert Sculp.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving, part 16th century watermark; 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Deer being tracked by sniffer dogs. They try to avoid detection by climbing on the back of and ox and hanging from a branch by their antlers. Plate 35 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54138] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hunting cranes] Auceps è chartis confectis arte cucullos / Interius visco linit... 40 & XXVIII
Joan. Stradanus invent. Carol. de Mallery Sculp.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Hunters place conical hoods in holes, in which the cranes' heads get trapped. Plate 40 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54139] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[An inexperenced hunter being rescued from a hole] Sæpe quidem incautus Venator in antra, cavernar, / Et Latÿ cryptas herbis tectas cadit... 42 & XXXVIII
Joan. Stradanus invent. J. Collaert Sculp. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving, 16th century watermark. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Three hunters haul a rope up, dragging their collegue from a snake-infested pit. Plate 42 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54140] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Capturing a giant serpent] Ter denos longum cubitos Ægyptia tellus / Serpentem olim habuit, qui bellica tela, sarisas, / Tympana; terribilesq[ue] tubas fugitans, per opacum / Tensos iin cases male providus incidit antrum. 45 & XXXI
Joan. Stradanus invent. Cornelius Galle Sculpsit. 1577.
Phl's Galle excud [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Long tear with old repair, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
A giant serpent of Egypt driven into a cave by the noise of drums and trumpets. Plate 45 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54141] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Killing dragons in Eygpt] Ecquis in Ægypto crista et tergo else Dracones / Serratis credat flammis ? ... 46.
Joan. Stradanus invent. Joan. Collaert sculp.
Phl's Galle excud 1577. [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Men decapitate two dragons with axes on lettered cloths, while a third dragon chases two unfortunates in the background.
Plate 46 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54142] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hunting wolves] Sic canibus spiculisq[ue] lupos sectantur agrestes Albaq[ue] suspendunt hirsutis lintea dumis. 49.
Joha. Stradanus inve.
[Antwerp: Philips Galle, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Riders hunting wolves with dogs in a fenced-off area. Plate 49 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54143] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hunting wolves] Sic ouis occis[a]e lupus extis fallitur, arcto Aut laqueo, aut tectis frondoso vimine fossis. 50
Joha. Stradanus inve.
[Antwerp: Philips Galle, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse. Stain top centre.
A rider drags a ram's carcase to lure wolves into snares. Plate 50 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54144] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Hunting porcupines] Sic specubus ruptis, per compita strata viarum Retibus aptatis cauti capiuntur Echini. 54
Joes. Stradan inven. 1577.
Phl's Galle excu [Antwerp, c.1596].
Engraving. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"), with margins. Old ink mss. in top margin, ink ownership inscription of 'W. Wood' on reverse.
Men dig out porcupines, trap them in nets and kill them with axes. Plate 54 of 'Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium. Pugnæ Bestiariorum: & mutuæ Bestiarum', a book depicting battles between man & beast and between beasts, drawn by Jan van der Straet (1523-1605, a Flemish painter working in Florence. The verse was written by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528-1607) of Duffel, poet and lexicographer, author of an important Dutch-Latin dictionary, 'Dictionarium Teutonico-Latinum', 1574. The 'Venationes' was first issued in 1577, when van der Staet met Philips Galle in Antwerp. The original series had no plate numbers, but these were added as the series was expanded in 1596.
[Ref: 54145] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[The Doge's Palace.]
Giallina 91. David Law [pencil signature.].
London Published February 29th 1892 by Henry Graves & Co, Proprietor's 6 Pall Mall. USA Copyright Henry Graves & Co.
Etching, 325 signed proofs. 520 x 225mm (20½ x 8¾"). Laid into mount at edges. Time stained
A view of an archway leading to a flight of stairs. Two swallows fly towards the viewer.
[Ref: 53117] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Venus Instructing Cupid. Melt to Love the yielding Fair / Teach her not to give dispair. / Anacron.
Design'd by Kirk. Engraved by A. O[***}
London, Published March 10. 1801, by A.C. de Poggi, No 91, New Bond Street.
Fine stipple, printed in brown. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed losing parts of inscriptions, including engraver's name.
A circular stipple.
[Ref: 54210] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Waggoner and Fisherman.
Ostage pinx.t J. Wilson fecit.
[London. Printd for Rob.t Sayer, No 53 in Fleet Street.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint. 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"), Trimmed at bottom, losing two lines of verse and publication line. Small margins on 3 sides.
Two smiling men in a tavern, one holding a mug, the other a pipe.
[Ref: 54216] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Wagner at his desk.]
L. Balestrieri [pencil signature]. No. 88.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 465 x 625mm (18¼ x 24½"), A printsellers' blindstamp. Tears in right margin taped. Slight crease top left. Couple of very small marks in centre.
Wagner, sitting at his desk by a window with an extensive view of a city, the score of Tannhäuser before him Drawn and engraved by Lionello Balestrieri (1872-1958), an artist who moved in musical circles, coming to know Puccini, Giordano and Cilea.
[Ref: 54164] £380.00

Political Harmonics A New Variation for the "Soldier Tired" as performed by Monsieur Villanton, First Fiddle to The King_with a Piano Accompaniment arranged to the Air "Home! Sweet Home!" HB Sketches No.23.
HB. [John Doyle.] Printed by A. Ducote.
[Published by T.Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket. Sep. 11. 1829.]
Fine coloured lithograph. J. Whatman 1829 watermark; 280 x 320mm (11 x 12¾"). Trimmed.
A musical image showing Peel sitting on a music-stool at an upright piano, smiling over his shoulder at Wellington, who plays the violin (as he had in fact done as a young man), in profile to the left, his music on a tall stand. The Duke wears the unusual dress for him of frock-coat with knee-breeches. Goulburn (Chancellor of the Exchequer) turns over Peel's music. On the right is a curtained French-window, through which Cumberland and Eldon, both top-hatted, peer into the room.
BM Satires: 15856.
[Ref: 54074] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sophia Western.
Published Oct.r 1. 1790 by J. Read, Coventry Court, Hay Market.
Rare stipple. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"). Two repaired tears entering unprinted part of plate, stains near inscription and narrow margins.
A rare oval portrait of Sophia Western, the love interest in Henry Fieldings's novel 'Tom Jones', seated at a table, letter in hand.
[Ref: 54179] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

John Wilkes Esqr. - Member of Parliament for Aylesbury Bucks. Great without Title, beyond fortune blef'd, Rich ev'n when plundered, honour'd, while opprefs'd, Lov'd without Youth, & follow'd without Power, At Home, tho exil'd; free, tho' m the Tower. Pope.
J.1 Miller del: et Sculp.t.
Publ: acc: to the Act June 30, 1763, by J. Miller, Maiden Lane. Price 2.s 6.d.
Rare engraving. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"). Trimmed to plate, bottom right corner repaired.
John Wilkes (1725-97), radical journalist and politician, becoming MP and Lord Mayor of London. Oddly he was a supporter of the American Revolution, yet was in charge of soldiers protecting the Bank of England during the Gordon Riots in 1780 and spoke against the French Revolution in 1789. This portrait, with Wilkes holding back a curtain in a window, shows the squint and the protunding jaw that earned him the description of 'the ugliest man in England'. Drawn, engraved and published by John Sebastian Miller (1715-1792, formerly Johann Sebastian Müller), engraver and botanist.
[Ref: 53550] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)

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